[MD] Down the road of mediocrity

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting "Laycock, Jos (OSPT)" <Jos.Laycock at OFFSOL.GSI.GOV.UK>:

> Uh? they didn't, unless you're talking about the failed coup in the 80s.
> I'm no ruissian scholar but didnt the revolution usher in communism?
> Peristroyka, Glasnost, none of this ring a bell? Gradual reform from the top
> allowed for a degree of  increased market freedoms and was swiftly followed by
> economic collapse. Putin's return to autocracy has proved the only effective
> remedy in recent years. 

I'm talking about the collapse of Russian communism signaled by the destruction
of the Berlin wall. Not all revolutions are violent.




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